1. "We're going to try and do for satellites what we've done for rockets."

The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX, on a cargo resupply service mission to the International Space Station, lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jan. 10, 2015.REUTERS/Scott Audette

Musk says he plans to build an engineering office for SpaceX in Seattle, which will employ "several hundred people, maybe a thousand people." A commercial satellite business will help SpaceX secure the necessary money and communications systems needed to eventually build a human colony on Mars.

3. Musk nearly had a nervous breakdown in the early days of Tesla.

On the Sunday before Christmas 2008, the same year he assumed the CEO role and laid off dozens of employees after closing an office near Detroit, Musk says he nearly had a nervous breakdown because Tesla was in "extremely dire straits." He says, "No one would take us seriously."

Musk still thinks there isn't enough of a pattern yet, and progress still needs to be made from a technology standpoint, but he's encouraged. "It's clearly not front and center ... I would strongly recommend making significant investments in electric cars."

5. Texas is going to play a major role in Musk's future operations.

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6. Musk is following through with his Hyperloop concept — he will build a 5-mile test track.

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Musk says he will probably build the test track of his ultra-high-speed shuttle system, theoretically able to transport people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour, in Texas.

7. Tesla Motors' first all-electric SUV, the Model X, will be unveiled later this year.